Music as a Liberal Art: The Poetry of the Universe

This article explores the place of music in the classical liberal arts curriculum, which consists of the trivium (the arts of language) and the quadrivium (the arts of number). Music is part of the quadrivial disciplines and studied as applied arithmetic. However, as argued in this article, it is al...

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Main Author: Aquila, Dominic A. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 9
Further subjects:B Soul music
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B liberal arts
B Time
B Bach
B Dante
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